Gabriel Abreu-Vigil

Gabriel is from Charles Town, West Virginia and graduated from West Virginia University in 2021 where he received two BA degrees in Geography (focus in GIS) and Environmental Geoscience with a Spanish minor. Gabriel is interested in river and forest ecosystem evolution in response to climate change and related disturbances. He enjoys fieldwork, geology, GIS, remote sensing, and forestry. His past work included monitoring and studying lake algal blooms from space with NASA’s Climate Change Research Initiative, LiDAR landslide detection in West Virginia, mapping and digitizing trail inventories for the state of West Virginia, and estimating carbon in forest sinks for nonprofit management use.

As of Oct 2024, Gabriel is an ORISE Fellow with the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, MT.